The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-31
A City With Something Behind 1t
Besides a Windy Real Es-
tate Bubble.
The Bond Proposition Voted and Our
Future Prosperity Assured
Beyond Psradventures
New Manufacturing Schemes
Will Now Be Rapidly Put
I'm Practical Shape.
Latest News From the Various
Voting Precincts Through
out the COunty.

The boom which Emporia has been
enjoying for a few weeks past will now
probably take on larger proportions
with q rapidity that will astonish
many of our citizens. AS a straw
showing that this is the outlook it Is
only necessary to state that of the few
houses vacant and for rent q few
weeks ago, hardly one is now left, all
being either already occupied or en-
gagged and waiting occupants. Several
new firms have obtained business
locations and are preparing to open
up, some of them in a few days.
Notably new grocery store and a no
ton house.
More buildings will in all probabili-
ty be erected this summer than even
the most sanguine would care to pre-
dict.
And there is good and sufficient rea-
sons for all this. It is not merely q
real estate bubble which we are devel-
oping, but full-sized. frst-class, bust
ness boom, based on substantial
foundation, and with such self-evident
causes to further its progress that but
little thinking is necessary to convince
anyone that it is bound to proceed, and
to proceed Immediately, too. Among
the reasons why this is 30 are the fol-
lowing assurances:
First and foremost, the new railroads
which are assured us by the election
which took place yesterday.
2. Work has already begun on our
new water works, which will give inn
mediate employment to all the idle
hands now in our city who are willing
to work.
3. The new additions to the Normal
are to be begun Immediately.
4. Work on the new double track to
Ellinor will begin by April l.
5. We already have some half a
dozen manufacturing companies or
gained, with plenty of capital to back
them, who are Incorporated and rapid
ly preparing for business.
6. We have the best located city in
the state OF Kansas, with the finest
belt of timber surrounding it on al
sides, and the richest and best agri-
cultural land in the west for a back.
ground.
Z. We are already probably the
wealthiest city in the state, for our pop
ulation, so far as home capital is con-
cerned.
8. We have the finest educational
advantages of any city Of our size in
the country, either east or west.
0. We have by all means the prettiest
city, with the best streets, of any
place in Kansas.
10. We have cheaper city property,
for building or business purposes, than
any city of its size in the state.
IL. Cheaper and better farm lands
than in any other portion of the union
with the same advantages.
And these are only few of the many
advantages which we enjoy and which
go to build up city. All these mean
rapid growth. development Of business
increase of population. expansion OF
trade. 1t means the giving of employ
ment to many hundreds who must
come here to obtain work. It means
capital from abroad that will come herr
to be invested in safe and permanent
manner. 1t means that EmpOria must
and shall come to the forefront in the
great march Of progress now trampinl
Through Kansas and the west. II
means that every person who invests
in real estate in this city at our Low
| fiOurnS oOmOared with other Mares
must double and triple his money with
in an extremely short time. It means
that all we have to do is to LEI
outsiders know what we have in thii
city, and they will flock to US by thu
hundreds and thousands. Emporia ha.
to-day more to base boom on than an!
other city in the state of Kansas. ant
more on which to maintain one on at
ter being thoroughly established.